The folks who brought us TheServerSide.COM , one of the strongest Java community sites on the web have just brought us TheServerSide.NET ! I’ve found TheServerSide.COM to be full of useful information for Java and look forward to similar great content...

The Nano Cube cycled nicely – complete with measurable ammonia and nitrite spikes – and stabilized in just over a week, though it did require some addition of pH buffer to raise the pH. After the water tested out great at the local fish store...

Am I the only one who finds the Acrobat 6.0 interface to be somewhat alien in the world of the Windows desktop? Acrobat 5.0 felt much more like a native Windows application. Acrobat 6.0 feels like something I’d get with a Java application trying...

I started this paper a while ago and simply haven’t had the chance to buff ‘n polish it for publication. However, enough people within Microsoft have derived value from it that I thought posting it here may allow the general public to derive...

Is it really necessary that I learn to program in XAML, or can I safely rely upon tooling to handle the dirty work for me? In the world of WYSIWYG form designers, is it really necessary that I understand the language beneath the form? For example, if...

Left Lane Law - While traveling on an interstate highway, a vehicle may not be driven in the left lane, except when overtaking and passing another vehicle. This prohibition does not apply to authorized emergency vehicles while engaged in official duties...

I was stopped at about 12:30AM this morning by the Winnetka police as I unwittingly turned off the main road that runs from the north side of Chicago up through Evanston, Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka and beyond, and onto a little dead-end road that...

Consistently, Outlook 2003 treats some of Scoble’s posts as Junk Mail. Actually, I find it kind of cool that the integration between NewsGator and Outlook 2003 allows for Outlook’s Junk Mail filters to kick in. Now to figure out if these posts...

If you read my earlier post, Finding Nemo and Customer Service , then you know that I’m setting up a nano reef. Well, today’s our first day back from vacation and visiting family, and I’m making good on my promise to my daughter. We...